Americans mostly back dumping the electoral college, i don't

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96. Valid points.

Thomas Jefferson was keenly aware of the rural city divide. He and his contemporaries were clearly anti centralized government.
One of the battles that produced the EC was simple population in the eventual Megalopolis of the North East. There was a lot of money in Virginia and South Carolina, but no white people, proportionately.
Money ruled then as it does now. The money plays the game within the rules, bending when they can.
And money manipulates the EC for its benefit undermining the power of the majority to its deserved majority rule.
We are lead by a minority that goes against the original framing of majority rule with respect for the minority.
Small town wisdom has its place in my spectrum of understanding, but I learned in the Sixties as a 16 year old travelling in Europe, that women did not shave their armpits. It opened my eyes to a world view I never would have experienced in Paris, Tennessee.
In fact, when I visit Paris, Tennessee today, I go back to a time most of America has transcended beyond.
Yet, the hospital in Paris would not have saved my wife from a dissected ascending aorta that started bleeding late one night.
The money flow, again.
We are getting defeated by the money flow using the EC to its advantage.
Private Equity is using the EC that is destroying rural America knowing full well the voters there are unwilling to give up their "power," of protecting home town values. Irony at its best.